The Great Bubble Barrier: bubble curtains are intercepting 86 percent of river plastic
Rivers are how plastic gets to the ocean. Stop it there, and you stop it for good. The Great Bubble Barrier, a Dutch company, has built a technology to do exactly that. A perforated tube runs across the bed of a waterway and connects to an air pump. The pump creates a rising curtain of bubbles. Installed diagonally across the river’s flow, the current naturally carries floating plastic, and material suspended lower in the water column, to a collection point at the bank. The system does not block
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